Alan Titchmarsh and a small urban garden

Caught up with Friday's episode of "Love your Garden" on itvplayer yesterday - the episode on a small urban garden. This time Alan actually mentioned the size of the garden - 20 metres, so about the same size as mine. Only mention of shade was when Alan was putting a seddum roof on a shed beside a neighbour's tree which was on the north side.

The vegetable patch looked like a real vegetable patch rather than an attractive pottager which us ordinary mortals can't achieve in real life.

Also the vegetable growing on a small balcony (8 ft x 4 ft) was interesting. No shade problems, but I can't complain it wasn't small!!! Chinese cabbage in 8 weeks - I will have to look out for seeds of that next year.

He did say there was no excuse not to get peat free compost. They rarely sell it in DIY stores round here - getting 20 litre bags I can lift is a problem all of it's own!

And lovage mentioned again - hope to try that next year as well!

Love Your Garden - average sized my foot!

Just watched "Love Your Garden" and grrh! grrrh! and grrrrh! again.

Still no mention of what they think an average-sized garden is, but this one was large - even the width of the house would be longer than a lot of urban gardens.

They did show a nice way of making stone mosaics which I'd like to try if only I could get small bags of quick-set cement rather than the huge bags I can't even lift!

They also recommended lovage.  Good for flavouring. Good for shade! So I'd definitely look out for that.